Furry Fandom and Drama General

[AnOminous]

It just doesn't look like it's fun or interesting at all, it truly looks like it's just "talking animals in a city." Alright, where's the plot? Where's anything?

It's sexy furry animals in a city, where they have sexy furry animal sex in the sexy city. Didn't you see the trailer?

 

[Super Collie]

Beware your nephew's future. This might be the dropping point into furfaggotry for him.

Nah, just rent Disney's Robin Hood. Done deal. If the kid's destined to be a furry, this'll be what proves it. Not everyone who likes Robin Hood is a furry, but everyone who is a furry likes Robin Hood.

Also speaking as someone who's been in the fandom too goddamned long, I think Zootopia looks like ass. I don't like the character designs, my mind is firmly stuck in the past with human proportions instead of just being bipedal. Shit looks like Over the Hedge except rendered better.

 

[Gensdupays]

Is Jungledyret Hugo still a big thing? I remember back in like the old days it was a meme kind of like Krystal.

 

[c-no]

I feel like you guys have too little faith in Disney. I'm sure Zootopia will be decent.

If it were to be decent, they would have a trailer that gives one the idea of a plot like say some story with the fox getting in trouble with the rabbit. All we see is just a bunch of animals in clothes and a mention of some still being enemies.

It just doesn't look like it's fun or interesting at all, it truly looks like it's just "talking animals in a city." Alright, where's the plot? Where's anything?

The trailer would of been good to give off some detail of story but like you said, it's just "talking animals in a city". The lack of giving one the idea of a plot besides "talking city animals" would reinforce the idea of pandering to furries.

 

[Trickie]

If it were to be decent, they would have a trailer that gives one the idea of a plot like say some story with the fox getting in trouble with the rabbit. All we see is just a bunch of animals in clothes and a mention of some still being enemies.

Actually, this is a trend I've been noticing with some animated films lately, they'll introduce a movie by putting out a teaser that introduces the world concept rather than the premise. Take Inside Out for example.

"Hey, you know about emotions, right? Well this is a movie about emotions that live inside your head as tiny little people." And then that's it. You see a glimpse of the family, but only to establish that this is who the story is about, there's no context to it whatsoever, and then they start showing what the story's going to be about in later trailers.

 

[Gensdupays]

I think it's a response to people complaining trailers used to give away everything. Feast or famine with them sometimes. But the trailer we're talking about was made for a completely different reason so it doesn't matter.

 

[The Lizard Queen]

I'm gonna trust Disney/Pixar on this one. They've made enough good movies lately that they deserve the benefit of the doubt... for the moment. They've earned my trust.
Then again, trust is what I gave George Lucas back before Episode 1 came out... It's been all downhill from there...

 

[Adamska]

Actually, this is a trend I've been noticing with some animated films lately, they'll introduce a movie by putting out a teaser that introduces the world concept rather than the premise. Take Inside Out for example.

"Hey, you know about emotions, right? Well this is a movie about emotions that live inside your head as tiny little people." And then that's it. You see a glimpse of the family, but only to establish that this is who the story is about, there's no context to it whatsoever, and then they start showing what the story's going to be about in later trailers.

That actually gives me a flash of the characters that will be in it and a vague idea on what I'll deal with in the movie. This is at least 20 times better than the "Anthropomorphic means SPERGSPERGSPERG" trailer Zootopia shat out.

I guess I'll be less harsh on it depending on what the other trailers that'll inevitably come out will do, but damn boi that was a shit showing.

 

[Glaive]

I can't even make it through this video all the way.
I lose my shit usually when the pony comes in or when she starts sitting on him and have to close it out from just feeling 2nd-hand embarrassment.

Why would anyone willingly post something this personal and creepy about their private life on the internet, help


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DON'T HURT SPARKLES!!!

 

[Lacquer Head]

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Everytime I watch this it gets worse and worse

 

[Johnny Bravo]

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DON'T HURT SPARKLES!!!

The thumbnail is already too much for me to handle.

 

[Night Terror]

I doubt Zootopia is being aimed at furries. I mean, there's a lot of films and tv shows that feature anthro animals that are aimed squarely at kids. Sure, a lot of these came out before furries started getting really noticed, but if they wanted to pander to furries, they'd have made the characters fully anthro, rather than just regular animals standing upright and wearing clothes. Like Collie said, they look like overgrown Over the Hedge characters to me.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

I doubt Zootopia is being aimed at furries. I mean, there's a lot of films and tv shows that feature anthro animals that are aimed squarely at kids. Sure, a lot of these came out before furries started getting really noticed, but if they wanted to pander to furries, they'd have made the characters fully anthro, rather than just regular animals standing upright and wearing clothes. Like Collie said, they look like overgrown Over the Hedge characters to me.

Good point. I also think that if they were pandering to furries they would shoot for a PG-13 rating. Not necessarily for sex, but simply to make it appeal to adults and teens in general.

 

[Luna]

...the modern mammal metropolis of Zootopia is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest shrew, you can be anything. But when optimistic Officer Judy Hopps arrives, she discovers that being the first bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn’t so easy. Determined to prove herself, she jumps at the opportunity to crack a case, even if it means partnering with a fast-talking, scam-artist fox, Nick Wilde, to solve the mystery.

Looks like Zootopia is a buddy-cop film with an allegory about why stereotyping is bad.

 

[lolwut]

Looks like Zootopia is a buddy-cop film with an allegory about why stereotyping is bad.

It's never wrong to stereotype furries.

 

[SpessCaptain]

It's never wrong to stereotype furries.

Furries are built on stereotypes, in fact their wiki talks about it.

• Dragons are pretentious, attempt to appear wise and cultured, and often follow a strange form of mysticism. More recently, they've been perceived as being "derpy" If female, they are fangirls of Anne McCaffrey's Pern.
• Unicorns are aristocratic, and prideful about their appearance.
• Equines are "size queens", into bondage and pony play.
• Male foxes are frequently gay or bi, overly sexualized and submissive, and are an overexposed choice of character.
• Female foxes and vixens are usually male players, even more overly sexualized, and not bright.
• Red Pandas Desperately try to seek attention, and choose a red panda as an "original" alternative to foxes, just to get attention.
• Gryphons are obsessed fans of Mercedes Lackey fiction and can be capricious.
• Rabbit (species)s are neurotic and paranoid, or are sexually promiscuous, and often enjoy being edible.
• Wolves behave like alpha males, arrogant and expecting to be treated as leaders. Alternately, they are sometimes purported to act like big foxes.
• Huskies are the new foxes, but more submissive.[citation needed]
• Raccoons are seen as antisocial and bi-sexual. Some see raccoons as sneaky thieves who steal at every chance they get.
• Cats are seen as clean and sometimes prissy, bordering on the noble class.
• Squirrels are jittery and hyperactive.
• Hyenas are seen as insane, loud, aggressive, overtly sexual.
• Kangaroos are always foot fetishists who have pouches on both genders.

 

[Kaz]

I can't even make it through this video all the way.
I lose my shit usually when the pony comes in or when she starts sitting on him and have to close it out from just feeling 2nd-hand embarrassment.

Why would anyone willingly post something this personal and creepy about their private life on the internet, help


Warning: Not safe for work and probably not safe for life

DON'T HURT SPARKLES!!!

I may have torn a hole in the very fabric of the universe with how hard I cringed while watching that.
Someone help.

 

[c-no]

I can't even make it through this video all the way.
I lose my shit usually when the pony comes in or when she starts sitting on him and have to close it out from just feeling 2nd-hand embarrassment.

Why would anyone willingly post something this personal and creepy about their private life on the internet, help


Warning: Not safe for work and probably not safe for life

DON'T HURT SPARKLES!!!

Watching that entire thing, I can still feel the whiplash and after-effect of cringe. The only guess why someone would post something that personal and creepy to the internet, one could only guess it's for some followers or something.

 

[creamyfanta]

I wouldnt say zootopia is pandering to furries necessarily, but in there there is definitely some recognition that furries will be in their audience.

The naked joke. The clothes (and nor just shirts or pants like most other animated animals, but shirts AND pants worn together anthro style). The "be-fur," which is a well - known and irritating furry thing they love to do. The mere mention of the word "anthropomorphic." The fact the main dude was a fucking FOX, the number one furry boner animal...ever. and the fact it has the word "zoo" in the title, which is very similar to "zoophile."

Maybe not pandering, but definitely there is an attempt in there somewhere to appeal to the furries.
Or ill be damned by GodBear.

 

[Adamska]

There's also the matter that many furries are horrid manchildren who monofocus on kid's shit, so it being rated PG actually would still make sense, moreso in some ways to PG-13.